St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-16
BORED BY INTERVIEWERS.
Judge Macdonald a Little Opposed to
Washington Correspondents.
PUT IN A FALSE POSITION.
he Will Take His Family to the Capital,
But Not Go Into Washing
ton Society.

Specldl lo the GlODe.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.-Congress-
man Macdonald is strenuously opposed
to being interviewed, even by his friends
of the press. He said this afternoon in
response to inquiries:
There seems to be disposition
among the Washington correspondents
to make as much use out of congress
man as they can, if they happen to
catch him here in dull season. SYM
pathize with the boys, but should rather
have them sympathize with me little.
They place me in a false position at
home by the constant iteration of my
NAME"
II don't suppose that any one has in
tentiOnally done this, but it amounts to
the same thing. If there were more
members of congress here the CORE
spondentS would devote less of their
time to me. But, inaSmuch as a con-
gresham here at this time is rara avis,
the gentlemen of the press crowd around
and talk and ask questions, simple.
harmless questions. and then go off and
spin out a long interview and print it.
Now when | was here last June there
were so many interviews printed and
so much space given to me that it looked
W SOlllC VI lily SOOu Ii lClltlS DIS IL L IldO
done nothing else in Washington but go
around and have myself interviewed in
order to keep my name before the peO-
pie. Of course my friends knew me
better than that; but those who do not
know me could easily have an errOne-
GUS impression created by so much
press comment about newly-elected
member of congress-"
"Have the correspondents been Of
fensively pertinaciOuS?"
mo. They are clever lot of gentle
men and are only pursuing their legiti-
mate occupation in following congress
man up and getting all that is possible
out of him. The interviews which APP
peared in the local papers here were all
right and represented me about right;
but what do the people here in Wash
ingtOn care about the opinions of new
congressman from Minnesota"
'sBut judge. your opinions are of
especial interest to the Northwest"
THAT may be. I am not here upon
any political mission. 1t is matter of
my family during the next year. l have
concluded to bring them all with me.
If l send my children to school away
from me they will lose considerable of
that indescribable education which we
commonly term, home influence
Children, big and little, should be
with their parents as much
as possible. Consequently I
have concluded to either rent an unfur-
nished house and fix it up to suit me, or
else rent furnished house. There are
a great many things to consider, and it
is better to determine them now than to
wait until congress meets. Hence am
looking for a house."
"Will you entertain largely this win
ter, judge?"
81 don't intend to entertain either
largely or on small scale, in the ordi-
nary meaning of that word. am going
to get small house, just large enough
for comfort of the family, and hope to
live as quiet home life as l do in
ShakOpee. l want one spare bed room
in it, so as to be ready to accommodate
visiting friend occasionally. But
aside from that there will be nothing of
| a social nature in the way of entertain
| ment at the Macdonald home. It will be
an unpretentious house, in the health
lest part of the city, and it will have no
public merit. except that the latch
string will be out to all my friends from
Minnesota. Pm not going into Wash
ingtOn society,""
Judge Macdonald is as sensitive as
he is sensible. He misunderstands the
correspondents. The fact is they cor
ner him and talk to him, and ask him so
many questions because they like and
believe IN him. One of the radical Re-
publican correspondents of a strongly
partisan Republican paper said to-day:
IF Rice and Wilson are like MacDon-
| aid don't wonder that they were all
elected in Republican districts. Your
manly men always win, no matter what
may be their politics. 1 could vote for
Judge Macdonald myself, although his
tariff revision ideas don't suit me. But
he's honest in his views and conserva-
| tive in his expressions" We who live
in Washington and have seen hundreds
of congressman spending their sub
stance in riotous living" probably know
| better how to appreciate the sturdy,
home-loving Scotch-American who
comes into the parliament of the repub-
lie, bringing his wife and brains with
him, ignoring the garish glare and gilt
ter of the shallow society of the capital
of the nation. 1t is pity, great pity.
that the people do not send more such
husbands and fathers to represent them
in